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Tablet with Inscription Honoring Ancharia Luperca

Roman (Artist)
23 January 224 CE (Roman Imperial)
bronze
(Roman Empire )

The inscription on this tablet gives honors to Ancharia Luperca, the wife of Laberius Gallus, by the society of the smiths of Volsenii. A male bust (Walters 54.1148) was riveted to the top of the tablet when it entered the Walters' collection.

Inscription

CIL XI 2702: Translation, US Epigraphy Project, https://usepigraphy.brown.edu/projects/usep/inscription/MD.Balt.WAG.L.54.176/

When Appius Claudius Julianus (for the second time) and Lucius Bruttius Crispinus were consuls, on the tenth day before the Kalends of February, in the schola of the collegium of craftsmen of the citizens of Volsinium whom Titus Sossius Hilarus and Caetennius Onesimus, quinquennales, assembled there, these same quinquennales made a verbal report regarding the fact that, with such love and such affection, Laberius Gallus, primipilaris, illustrious man, may undertake the management of our collegium. His kindnesses confirm those (kindnesses) long since granted to us. And for that reason (let us elect) Ancharia Luperca, his wife, the daughter of Ancharius formerly Celer, a man of blessed memory, (a woman) whose children and offspring performed all the honors of our fatherland with honest loyalty—in their honor and on account of her moral conduct and of her now old habit of virtue, let us elect her as patroness of our collegium; let us also set up a bronze statue next to the one of Laberius Gallus, her husband, in the schola of our collegium. What it pleased them should be done regarding the affair, everyone thus decreed; that rightly and deservingly our quinquennales should proclaim Acharia Luperca as an honest matron of venerable nature and also a woman of discipline, with endowed reverence; in honor of Laberius Gallus, primipilaris, illustrious man, her husband, patron of our collegium and in memory of Ancharius, formerly Celer, his father, let us elect her as a most worthy patroness and let us set up and bronze statue for her in the schola of our collegium next to the one of Laberius Gallus, her husband, so that her piety towards us and our general affection towards her may be seen through (?) this sight; also that a patronage tablet be affixed in her home.

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Excavated 1882, Bolsena (Volsinii), Italy; collection of Giovanni Scotti [CIL XI 2702]. Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [cat. no. 14, pt. 2]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/3/1957 Treatment cleaned
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Geographies

Roman Empire (Place of Origin) Italy, Bolsena (Place of Discovery)

Measurements

H: 27 3/8 x W: 19 1/8 in. (69.5 x 48.5 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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54.176

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